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Things are changing. Better ways of doing things are been thought out and employed. Counsellor education and supervision is not left out in this wind of change. This paper specifically acknowledges this in the area of supervision of students on counselling practicum exercise. In Nigeria, counselling is taught from first degree to Ph.D. level. During the course of training of the counsellors at the first degree level, trainees are exposed to a two six-weeks practicum exercise. At the end of each of the practicum exercise, the trainee counsellors are assessed. Most times, the assessment is done post mortem from the review of tapes and reports. This paper submits that such exercises can be improved by employing the use of some ICT techniques for enhanced and more accurate assessment of trainee counsellors practicum experiences, hence the call for a shift from the old school to the use of ICT in supervision of trainee counsellors in Nigeria. INTRODUCTION The ways of doing things change from time to time in the face of emerging and prevailing circumstances. These ways of doing things which give way to new ways are in the parlance of the youth regarded as “Old School”. They are called ‘Old School’ because it is thought to belong to older and fading generation. The ways of teaching in counsellor education are changing. They are accommodating new ways. One of the ways is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The same can be said of supervision in counsellor education. Counselling has long been seen as a face to face professional and ethical relationship between a counsellor and a client. This concept of counselling has long given way to modern definitions. The modern definition accommodates the fact that counselling can be done from a distance and via the use of technology by not restricting it to face to face interaction. ACA International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences August 2013, Vol. 3, No. 8

From Old School to the Use of ICT in Supervision of Counsellor Trainees in Nigeria